This beginner friendly blender tutorial will teach you ALL important things about 2D GREASE PENCIL animation tool in a time efficient and fast way.
Grease Pencil is a very powerful 2D tool in Blender that you can use to create 2D animations / digital art / storyboards / animatics / motion graphics and MANY more. All in a 3D environment. Possibilities are ENDLESS!
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
User experience
01:07 Object interaction modes
02:49 Pie menu for object modes
03:26 Pie menu for shading modes
03:51 2D animation preset and why it’s great
04:24 How to customize 2D animation preset
05:44 Saving startup file & load factory settings
06:21 Quick favorites and search menus
Draw mode
06:56 Draw mode shortcuts
09:22 Timeline shortcuts
10:49 Materials and vertex colors
12:14 Brushes and how to append more
12:54 Stroke materials
13:52 Fill materials
15:02 Holdout materials
15:40 Fill, erase, cutter
16:19 Brush settings
17:31 Stroke settings
18:29 Extra modes
19:07 Stroke origin and drawing plane
20:29 How to use Guides
21:13 How to use Curve tool
21:41 Subdivisions
22:44 Layers overview
23:53 Layers & Masking
24:44 Layers & Onion skinning
25:23 Layers & Strokes in 2D / 3D space
Edit mode
25:41 Edit mode shortcuts
27:25 Curve edit mode
28:31 Gradients and better way to edit them
29:29 Assign materials
30:05 Extrude points
30:31 Transform pivot point
31:08 Proportional editing
32:00 Separate points to own objects
32:22 Cleaning
32:53 Reproject strokes
33:48 OLD WORKFLOW - WATCH NEW TUTORIAL: Animating with Interpolate / Sequence
35:45 Multiframe editing
Sculpt mode
36:25 All tools and tips
Object mode
39:32 Object mode shortcuts
40:34 Align objects
41:07 Snapping
41:57 Transform values
43:09 Randomize transformation
43:53 Origin point and how to move it
44:27 Keyframes & graph editor
48:09 Collections & Outliner
50:18 Duplicate Linked
51:29 Camera settings
52:58 Multiple cameras in your scene
Modifiers
53:45 Adding, copying and removing modifiers
54:58 Array modifier
56:13 Build modifier
58:05 Mirror modifier & Canvas settings
58:41 Multiple strokes modifier
59:17 Simplify & Subdivide modifier
59:57 Armature modifier
1:00:56 Lattice & Hook modifier
1:03:33 Noise modifier
1:04:03 Offset modifier
1:04:22 Smooth modifier
1:04:48 Thickness modifier
1:05:06 Time offset modifier (Loops & Lip syncing tip)
1:06:36 Hue & Saturation modifier
1:07:00 Opacity modifier
1:07:38 Texture mapping modifier
1:08:50 Tint (Gradients with empty objects)
Effects
1:09:45 All grease pencil effects overview
1:12:15 Glitch effect with Wave Distortion
Constraints
1:12:44 Floor constraint
1:13:50 Track to constraint
1:14:41 Follow path constraint
1:15:44 Maintain volume constraint
1:16:26 Easy parallax setup using constraints
Miscellaneous
1:18:01 Camera background for image & video
1:19:19 Convert images & video to grease pencil
1:21:02 Convert 3D animation & mesh to grease pencil
1:21:59 Convert curves for interesting grease pencil shapes
1:22:52 Drivers explained
1:25:08 Adding sound to your projects
1:26:36 Render settings
1:30:28 Compositing
1:31:45 Addons (Rotate canvas, Box deform) & how to installing more
1:33:34 Grease Pencil Texture Brushes and Fills
1:33:52 Final tips & wrapping up
Using Grease pencil with PARTICLE SYSTEMS does work!
I have made tutorials about it, but there will be some changes in the near future (particle nodes) so I left them out of this.
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Note:
This tutorial was recorded mostly using Blender 2.91 and 2.92
Most tips still valid today (2024)
With these tips you can easily be a great grease pencil artist like dedouze, sophie jantak, blender grease monkey, team miracles, kevandram, marco bucci etc!
Tags:
#Greasepencil, #b3d